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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / March 2008New Installation of Office 2003 OEM in Vista is a mess
1.Installation as such went pretty normal 2. Installed all available updates including SP3 3. Activation - OK Some of the consequences after installation: 1.Network printers stopped working (no big deal) 2. Big deal: every time I open an Office app., a window pops up: "MS Office End-User License Agreement. If you don't accept, this application will quit". After clicking "Accept" the application opens, but... 3. When I write a short test sentence, save the document, close and then open I see _many_ garbled chunks of text, but not the sentence I saved. 4. Did the "Repair" and later "Change" in Add/Remove Programs - no change. I wonder if uninstalling and reinstalling Office would change anything, and what about the activation (again)? Besides I'm not sure about the cause of the problems: maybe it's Vista and not Office. Some tips would be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiba Satellite A205 Notebook Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T525 @ 1.50 GHz 1.50 GHz Memory (RAM): 2038 MB System type: 32-bit Operating System Please ignore #3 in "Problems": "When I write a short test sentence, save the document, close and then open I see _many_ garbled chunks of text, but not the sentence I saved. Reason fot the imagined problem: The document was not saved as .doc but something else. > 1.Installation as such went pretty normal > 2. Installed all available updates including SP3 [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Memory (RAM): 2038 MB > System type: 32-bit Operating System Valentin, "Consequences: 2. Big deal: every time I open an Office app., a window pops up: "MS Office End-User License Agreement. If you don't accept, this application will quit". After clicking "Accept" the application opens, but... You need to Logon with an Administrator acct, and open Outlook, or another Office application. Then accept the User End License.  SignatureAdd MS to your News Reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com Rich/rerat (RRR News) <message rule> <<Previous Text Snipped to Save Bandwidth When Appropriate>> 1.Installation as such went pretty normal 2. Installed all available updates including SP3 3. Activation - OK Some of the consequences after installation: 1.Network printers stopped working (no big deal) 2. Big deal: every time I open an Office app., a window pops up: "MS Office End-User License Agreement. If you don't accept, this application will quit". After clicking "Accept" the application opens, but... 3. When I write a short test sentence, save the document, close and then open I see _many_ garbled chunks of text, but not the sentence I saved. 4. Did the "Repair" and later "Change" in Add/Remove Programs - no change. I wonder if uninstalling and reinstalling Office would change anything, and what about the activation (again)? Besides I'm not sure about the cause of the problems: maybe it's Vista and not Office. Some tips would be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiba Satellite A205 Notebook Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T525 @ 1.50 GHz 1.50 GHz Memory (RAM): 2038 MB System type: 32-bit Operating System > Valentin, > "Consequences: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > You need to Logon with an Administrator acct, and open Outlook, or another > Office application. Then accept the User End License. Thanks for responding. You are right about "Logon with an Administrator acct", but it's easier said than done. For example when I right-click Word there is no choice in the menu "Run as Administrator". In the meantime I have been reading: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884202 which describes my problem, and also what to do about it, including a "workaround" how to make changes in Registry. It will take some time before I study and understand the dark labyrints of Vista in Word/Properties/Security with all the "permissions" and set up my "proper logon". Apparently my current system of creating a password when Windows starts is not enough. This condition must also explain why I had difficulties with my "wireless" network computers. I wish there was a simple instruction like "Do this: 1,2,3...", alas... > Thanks for responding. You are right about "Logon with an Administrator > acct", but it's easier said than done. Why? just log on to Windows with an account that has administrator priviliges. What's difficult about that? >For example when I right-click Word > there is no choice in the menu "Run as Administrator". that's NOT how you do it. You need to be in an account that has admin rights, and to run a module IN THAT ACCOUNT. I believe Vista introduced considerable changes in the Administrator setup with User Account Control. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> Thanks for responding. You are right about "Logon with an Administrator >> acct", but it's easier said than done. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > that's NOT how you do it. You need to be in an account that has admin > rights, and to run a module IN THAT ACCOUNT. >I believe Vista introduced considerable changes in the Administrator setup >with User Account Control. Still on XP myself... :-) >>I believe Vista introduced considerable changes in the Administrator setup >>with User Account Control. > > Still on XP myself... :-) Suzanne is right about Vista. So if you really want to blow your mind, you should also switch over to Vista, just to find out that even though you are the "Administrator" a small User Account Control window pops up at every turn informing you that "Windows needs your permission to continue". Qute, heh? It's like giving permission to yourself. So your rethorical question the other day "what's so difficult about logging in as an administrator" told me right away that you are oneof the lucky non-Vista users. :-) A simple thing called logic should have told you that if I were not the Administrator, Vista wouldn't let me install Office in the first place. ;-) If the Office is an OEM edition, presumably it came installed on your system. And you upgraded the system from XP to Vista, then reinstalled Office? If you installed an OEM version of Office from a different computer onto a new one, then that could be the source of your problems. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA > Valentin, > "Consequences: [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > Memory (RAM): 2038 MB > System type: 32-bit Operating System |
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